air transport

On Friday 15 October, the White House decided to finally lift all travel restrictions linked to covid-19 for fully vaccinated international visitors from 8 November. This decision puts an end to a historic travel ban in the country's recent history. The United States had kept its borders virtually sealed for 21...

A week ago, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published the results of a survey. Carried out among 4,700 people in 11 countries in September, the survey shows that passengers are generally weary of the restrictions still in force on air travel. But there is one important point concerning vaccination. It is true that...

From Paris-Orly, Transavia is already showing its colours for this summer. From 27 March 2022, several new routes will be added to the network from the Air France low-cost subsidiary's main French base. For the moment, these are routes to Bilbao, La Palma, the Azores (Ponta Delgada), Yerevan, Glasgow, Ljubljana, Podgorica and Skiathos...

"The customer and sustainable development". These were the two terms used by Henri de Peyrelongue, Executive Vice President Commercial Sales Air France-KLM during a presentation at the IFTM Top Resa tourism trade show. "Air France has prepared for this difficult period. We have continued to invest to maintain our entire network. We have also shown ourselves to be...

Italian carrier ITA is in the starting-block, with its first flights scheduled for 15 October. And even before it takes off, the company has already confirmed an initial option to lease and acquire new aircraft. ITA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus for 28 aircraft and with Airbus for...

The brand new Airbus A220-300, which the airline is particularly proud of for its environmental performance and comfort, will serve nine destinations this winter. This is according to the first announcements for the French carrier's 2021/2022 winter schedule. From 31 October, Air France will introduce the aircraft on routes...

Vueling should be able to launch nine daily return flights from Orly after receiving all 18 slots released by Air France in exchange for the European Commission's green light for its recapitalisation. New routes should begin operating from November. Vueling is already the third largest airline operator at Paris Orly...

The first route operated by Norwegian airline Flyr will connect Oslo-Gardermoen to Paris CDG on 14 October. Services to Copenhagen (CPH) and Rome Fiumicino (FCO) will begin one day later. Each of these three new routes will be operated twice weekly by Boeing 737-800. Launched on 30 June, Flyr already serves Nice to...

According to statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation, US scheduled passenger airlines reported a net profit after tax of $1 billion in the second quarter of 2021. A significant improvement despite a pre-tax operating loss of $3.6 billion. The second-quarter results represent the first profit since...

Eurocontrol, the body in charge of coordinating flights in Europe, has just published its latest report on air activity on the continent. And there is good news for airlines. In August, flights were back to 71% of 2019 levels across Europe. However, this average conceals a wide variation between countries...

This is confirmed almost daily. Air travel in Europe is picking up with the acceleration of vaccination. Travellers in possession of the precious sesame that is a vaccination are increasingly authorised to travel. This is good news for Finnair, whose traffic in Helsinki is largely made up of...

Munich airport authorities are smiling again. The autumn/winter 2021 season is shaping up very favourably with the return of many airlines and the rise of Lufthansa. In total, the airport will be linked again this September to 170 destinations, representing 80% of its pre-Covid network. At intercontinental level,...

September 11 2001 was a staggering event for the world. Anyone who lived through the event will remember the staggering, surreal images of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the devastation that followed. According to the Director General of IATA, Willie Walsh, as the...

ASL Airlines is resuming services to Algeria. These services were suspended during the covid-19 crisis. ASL Airlines France has just announced that the Algerian authorities have approved the resumption of the airline's scheduled flights between France and Algeria. The carrier resumed its service between Paris Charles de Gaulle and...

A new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the Department of Health of the Federated State of Georgia and Delta Air Lines has analysed passenger data on Delta flights with pre-flight Covid testing between New York-JFK, Atlanta and Rome-Fiumicino. It shows that the risk of exposure to Covid-19 on board an aircraft...

Keidanren, the very powerful and normally influential Federation of Japanese Business, sounded the alarm on Monday 6 September. The Japanese economy is weakening faster than it appears due to the isolation of the archipelago. On that day, the Keidanren presented a series of proposals aimed at normalising the country's economic activity. A pressing request at a time when...

It operates just over 20% of its pre-2019 flight volume to yet 70% of its destination network... This is Philippine Airlines, which continues to suffer from the almost total closure of the Philippines' borders since the covid pandemic in 2020. And last weekend, it submitted an application...

Following in the footsteps of its parent company Lufthansa, Swiss is launching a new business class catering concept. From September 1 and for the next six months, Swiss International Air Lines will be treating passengers on its long-haul flights from Switzerland to a selection of dishes prepared by Swiss chefs.

Pure chance? Probably not. Last April, Qatar Airways announced the launch in June of three weekly flights between Doha and Abidjan by Boeing 787, inaugurating its fourth route since the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The Qatari carrier also took the opportunity to sign an interline agreement with local carrier Air Côte d'Ivoire....

In July, passenger growth, expressed in RPK (revenue/passenger/km), was up by almost 130% on last year, according to the latest official figures from IATA. But the statistics can be misleading. After all, this growth is still at half-mast compared with 2019. The improvement is certainly visible compared with the first few months of...